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Description

This course defines the concept of terminal illness, the fields of action and quality indicators, and examines bioethics principles and the legal responsibility in caring for the terminal patient, symptomatic treatment with special emphasis on pain therapy and syndromes of spinal cord compression or superior vena cava, attention and care on agony, and teaching and learning of communication techniques with an emphasis on knowing how to communicate bad news, and the limitations of life-sustaining treatment.

Grading

Continuous assessment (forums): 30% Test exam: 70%: 40 questions with 4 answers, only one valid. Wrong answers: - 0.25%. Not answered: unscored (0). All the students have to do the course in palliative care emergency medical practices to overcome the subject. This stay not is incorporated to the note. You should make a portfolio of practice with reflection of the stay. The student must make a practical stay at a unit of palliative medicine for 37 hours and therefore achieve the knowledge of: - Integrate basic notions of the the main problems in patients with cancer and non-cancer? - Know the major medical emergencies in cancer and non-cancer patients treatment - To understand the concept of palliative in the agony and the limitation of life-sustaining treatment. - Combining notions of family claudication, psychological assistance in palliative care in palliative care situational stress management - To practice the elements of communication, care and care of the urgent and non-urgent medical problems in palliative medicine. The student can validate the practices if you have documentation of having made a stay in a unit of palliative medicine TEST EXAM The test exame will be online. DATE OF EXAM June 27, 2019 FORUM From 19 to 20 June 2019 REMEDIAL SUBJECTS: Remedial for the subjects of the first semester from June 2 or 20, 2018. A test exam or a task according to the subjects. Remedial for the subjects of the second semester from September 3, 2019. A test exam or a task according to the subjects. CALL FOR DECEMBER: Subjects: October 10 to 20, 2018 TFM (Final Master's Degree Project): October 10 to 20, 2018 DEADLINE MARKS 1st SEMESTER: February 20, 2019 2nd SEMESTER: July 8, 2019 and July 17, 2019 September: September 18, 2019 and September 23, 2019